US Patent Issued to Canon on April 15 for "Image processing apparatus, image capturing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,680, issued on April 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image capturing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Hironobu Arifuku (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an image processing apparatus. An obtainment unit obtains a first image, first subject information indicating a first subject detected from the first image, a second image, and second subject information indicating a second subject detected from the second image. A composition unit generates a composite image by compositing the first image and the second image. A recording unit records on...